Days 332 to 353 Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 10 x Bus / 2 x Plane / 3 x Boat / Many x Tuk Tuk & Taxis 4th – 25th March 2015 Miles rode – None Countries – Thailand / Cambodia / Vietnam Olly and I had a wonderful time traveling together. We stopped in Bangkok for a couple of days and then headed east on […]
Day 331 Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 9am 3rd March 2015 Miles rode 17 (27km) I returned to the Thai Customs offices and presented them with my new extended visa, completed the various forms and within an hour I had been given permission to leave my bike in Thailand until 17th April! I still have no idea why they granted me […]
Day 330 Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 9am 2nd March 2015 Miles rode 65 (104km) I had three things to do today, visit the ‘Thai Customs’ office, get new tyres fitted to my bike at 4pm and meet Rob for a beer in the evening. I woke with a fuzzy head as I watched Ireland beat England in the ‘6 nations’ […]
Days 328 & 329 Surat Thani – Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 8am & 9am 28th February & 1st March Miles rode 412 (659km) It was the first time in over a month that I rode the bike and it was tiring, I stopped regularly and didn’t push it. I arrived in Prachuap Khiri Khan on the first night which was by far the most chilled out, […]
Days 292 to 327 Koh Samui (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – I didn’t 23rd January – 27th February Miles rode 85 (136km) When I left the UK back in April 2014 I had an idea where I was going and a rough plan, what’s transpired has been that I have enjoyed the situations that have cropped up and developed leading to new people, places […]
Day 291 Koh Samui (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – I’m staying here… 22nd January 2015 Miles rode 0 My son Olly booked his flight to come and travel with me in March, he flys into Bangkok and then we’ll ‘backpack’ throughout Cambodia and Vietnam. How wonderful, I cannot wait as by the time he arrives we won’t have seen each other for […]
Day 290 Chumphon – Koh Samui (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 7.30am 21st January 2015 Miles rode 185 (296km) Early start today which meant I could enjoy early morning life in Chumphon. Many people where out and about the same as in most cities of the world however there wasn’t the rush we have in the west. People were talking and having food at one […]
Day 289 Bangkok – Chumphon (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 8.30am 20th January 2015 Miles rode 319 (510km) A long boring day today riding south to Koh Samui. It took 1 1/2 hours to get through Bangkok and then highway all the way south to Chumphon.
Day 288 Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 9.30am 19th January 2015 Miles rode 53 (85km) Heiko and I are staying on the outskirts of Bangkok and visited ‘Touratech Thailand’ in the morning, later I rode into central Bangkok to the Thai customs office to try and get a long extension to enable me to leave my motorbike here for up to […]
Day 287 Siem Reap – Bangkok (Thailand) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 8am 18th January 2015 Miles rode 280 (448km) I had an early coffee and headed back to Thailand. My son, Olly is coming out to visit me for the month of March and we plan to travel thought Cambodia & Vietnam so I saw no point in staying in Cambodia and seeing everything […]
Days 285 & 286 Angor Wat (Cambodia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 2.45pm 16th & 17th January 2015 Miles rode 20 (32km) After a couple of lazy mornings I eventually went back to Angkor Wat. Today I went to Ta Prohm (Tomb Raider was filmed here) which has been largely left for nature to take over, trees have grown over and around the ruined temple giving […]
Day 284 Angkor Wat (Cambodia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left 11.30am 15th January 2015 Miles rode 48 (77km) It as good catching up with Garth yesterday and after breakfast he headed south, would our paths cross again? Before visiting Angkor Wat (city of temples) I rode to Tonie Sap Lake (the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia) through miles of padi fields, small villages […]
